Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...range. Result: the Germans, without much information on the winds over England, were still able to aim the flying bombs with disconcerting precision. Once the course of the radio-equipped pilot bombs had been charted, the crews could send off more, with fair assurance that they could hit any neighborhood of London...
...opened during the week, had sent him no invitation to contribute. Aristide Maillol had never followed public events or cared about politics. He refused even to discuss the war. He merely worked on in his Banyuls house, and when plaster became scarce he sent his son to ask the neighborhood dentists for more. In leisure moments, the old man listened to music. Few modern artists have evoked such critical acclaim. Wrote Britain's Augustus John: "We can never tire of a style so pure . . . have enough of a vision so consummate. ..." Highest praise of all came from Auguste Rodin...
Safe & Sound. In Council Bluffs, Iowa, Jimmy Larsen, 12, popped a small whistle into his mouth to keep it from covetous playmates, startled the neighborhood by tooting with each breath until the whistle was extracted from his larynx...
Last week a crew of oilmen prepared to drill the first well on a ranch far down in the southwest corner of Alberta. Aware of oil deposits elsewhere in the neighborhood, the owner had hired geologists to examine his land. They reported: it's worth trying. Last week the owner, who had not visited the ranch in nearly three years, reached the U.S. Said the owner (the Duke of Windsor) to reporters in Miami (see PEOPLE) : he and the Duchess would visit Washington and Manhattan, and just possibly might stop off at his ranch in Alberta...
...Walden, Negro Atlanta attorney and State head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, appeared at Precinct B. His own precinct, where he votes regularly in general elections, was in a Negro neighborhood. It was closed for the Democratic primaries. When Lawyer Walden gave his name and address, he was told, "That's in Precinct 3-B. I'm sorry, but we have no one listed for voting at that address." He argued. O. L. Walker, election official, said firmly: "This primary is for white voters only." Both sides were careful, softspoken, scrupulously polite...